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Thomas Gage: heating the pot on April 18
Eric Matthew Gairy: first head of state when
Grenada gained independence from Britain on February 7 1974 [pre-Columban Americas]
Galenus: Aelius
Galenus to his
Greek family, Claudius
Galenus to his Roman bosses: reported the continuing
eruption of Mount Vesuvius on Aug 24; his website here
John Galt: was supposed to be on this list for May 30, but for some reason he just picked up his entry,
shrugged, and walked away [political ideologues]
Rabban Gamliel II: his prayer quoted on Feb 1; his bio here. Gamliel 1, the
grandson of Rabban Hillel, here; Gamliel III, his
grandson, here; Gamliel IV here; Gamliel V here; Gamliel VI here; and that makes the first four
hundred years of Talmudic Judaism, established at Yavneh, still thriving to
this day [reverend writers]
David Gans: chronicling the Jews of Prague on March 11 [historians]
Mabel Ganson (Mabel Ganson Evans Dodge
Sterne Luhan): chez Gertrude Stein
on Feb 3; turning me
into a poacher and DHL into a
mystic on March 2; – love this
wesbite (shame about the dead links)!
[illustrious illustrators]
Isabella Stewart Gardner: the museum is referenced and linked on June 2; museum here; her bio here [musical maestros]
Joseph Marie Garibaldi: “the living honour of Italy” on Oct 18; his full portrait here [political
ideologues]
Father Henry Garnet: hiding
in Chastleton on Nov 5; on trial
here; the plot here; him here
Patrick Floyd Jarvis Garrett (born June 5 1850; died February 29 1908): bounty-hunting Billy the Kid on July 14 and Nov 23 - more here
William Gaskell: husband of Lily on
Sept 29
Pietro di Antonio Dei, though he painted as Bartolomeo della Gatta: a minor contribution to the Sistine Chapel on
Nov 1; try here [illustrious illustrators]
Harold Charles Gatty (1903-57): navigating and
circumnavigating on July 1 [Sherpa Tenzings]
John
Gay: “Beggar's Opera” on March 15 [the world as stage]
Martin Gayford: bustering Duchamp on April 11 [illustrious
illustrators]
Claude Lorrain, who was
really Claude Gellée, and who is remembered simply as Claude
in England, but as Le Lorrain in France:
the last of the Classical painters, with Nicolas Poussin, on April 15. For
the “Barbizon” modernist movement which followed, see Paul Durand-Ruel on Feb 5.
For Claude try here [illustrious
illustrators]
Bachir
Pierre Gemayel: assassinated on Sept 14, revenged on
Sept 16
Geoffrey of Monmouth (circa 1090-1155): though he
liked to render his over-inflated ego as Galfridus Monemutensis or sometimes Galfridus Arturus, the latter just, presumably, to pretend that he was a
biological descendant of what he had now turned into an authentic human; coming
from Monmouth as he did, he also liked the Cymry version, though he would have
called it Welsh: Galfridus Artur Gruffudd ap Arthur Sieffre o Fynwy: creating
pseudo-history on Jan 13 [reverend writers]
David George: a black Baptist
preacher who provoked the 1784 Shelburne Race Riot (in Nova Scotia), by
baptising white residents and organising racially integrated churches [pre-Columban Americas]
Father John Gerard: escaped
from the Tower with a box of fireworks on Nov 5 - start here
François Pascal
Simon Gérard: painting the storming of the Tuilleries on Aug 10
Jean-Louis André Théodore Géricault (1791-1824): discovered by père and mère Durand-Ruel, setting the tone for son Paul’s later career, on Feb 5; his bio here [illustrious illustrators]
Heinrich Friedrich Wilhelm Gesenius (born February 17 1786; died October 23 1842): the
Bible in word-by-word explanations on Jan 7; mentioned on Sept 7; the full Lexicon here [librarians of Babel]
Ludwig Heinrich Christian Geyer (born January 21 1779; died September 30 1821): was
he or wasn’t he the father of Richard Wagner on Nov 19? Bio here [musical maestros]
John of Ghent, rendered
as Gaunt in English, as Gon in his
native Flemish; the second son of Edward III, himself
a Plantagenet, his descendants were the three Lancastrian Henries, IV, V and VI; supporting John Wycliffe on May 4; ransacked by revolting peasants on June 15 - bio here [Aenglisch page]
Alexander Sheftelyevich Ghindin: playing Mussorgsky on June 2; for more look here [musical maestros]
Charles Gibault: First husband of Suzanne
Buisson on Jan 26
John Gibson: hopelessly bust re Anna Brownell
Jameson on May 17
Arthur John Gielgud (born
April 14 1904; died May 21 2000): the perfect radio voice on Aug 8 [the world as stage]
William Schwenck Gilbert (born
November 18 1836; died May 29 1911): his satirical play about Rosencrantz and Guildernstern on Sept 2;
mentioned with partner Arthur
Sullivan on June 29 [the world as stage]
Alexander Gilchrist: husband of authoress Anne Burrows and
himself author of the first biography of William Blake; amongst the Cheyne crowd on Sept 29
Rowan
Fergus Meredith Gillespie: his sculpture of Gerard
Manley Hopkins can be seen on July 28; his sculptures of the four Irish Nobel winners can
be seen here [illustrious
illustrators]
Tsaraki
dan Gimimasu: built the
wall around the city of Kano in 1150 [Africa]
Albert
Girard (1595-1632): introducing
brackets and abbreviations into mathematics on March 29 [E,M&C2]
Immanuel
Giudeo, Immanuel of Rome: teaching
Dante the
sonnet on Jan 13 [The Poets]
Marlis Glaser: her portrait of of Regina
Jonas is on Jan 12 [illustrious
illustrators]
Philip Glass: one of Nadia Boulanger’s distinguished
list of students on Aug 21; clearly he didn‘t learn much on Feb 9 [musical maestros]
John Herschel Glenn: what on Earth (well, not on Earth, but the phrase
is valid anyway) was a Yank doing, and true not on, but mentioned alongside,
Russia’s Vostok 2 on Aug 7 [scientific achievements and E,M&C2]
William Godwin (born March 3 1756; died April 7 1836): one of Joseph Johnson's circle
of radical thinkers on April 27; try here [political ideologues]
Ottilie von Goethe, niece
of Johann
Wolfgang; visited by Anna Brownell Jameson on May 17
Theodorus (Theo) Van Gogh (born May 1 1857; died January 25 1891):
failing to sell a single one of his older brother’s paintings on Feb 5 [illustrious
illustrators]
Emma
Goldman (born June 27 1869; died May 14 1940): making George Padmore uncomfortable on June 28 [political ideologues]
Johann Goldsmid (1587-1616), though the world remembers him as Johannes
Fabricius: from Friesland not Denmark - that was me, on the Jan 8 page,
confusing him with Johan Christian Fabricius, a Danish
zoologist of the 18th century. This one, with his dad, saw their first sunspot
through that recent invention the telescope on February 27 1611 (and no, Jules Verne, they
didn’t see living creatures on the moon as well). And actually they may not
have been the first either: Thomas
Harriot (Hariot, Heriot) is now
thought to have beaten them (see March 29) [E,M&C2]
Ernst Hans Josef Gombrich (born
March 30 1909; died November 3 2001): "The Story Of Art" is on Feb 5; plus a passing mention on Aug 20 [illustrious
illustrators]
Francisco Sánchez Gómez, or Paco
di Lucia on his concert posters (born
December 21 1947; died February 25 2014): Flamenco, but mostly Jazz Fusion, on June 12 [musical maestros]
José Victoriano
González-Pérez, or Juan Gris on his
paintings: chez Gertrude Stein
on Feb 3
Sarah Goode, Sarah Osborne, and Tituba, three of
the “witches” of Salem, Massachusetts, in 1692, are all hanging from their
gallows on Feb 29; but you will also find Elizabeth
Howe, Susannah Martin, Sarah Wildes and Rebecca
Nurse on July 19, and Arthur Miller’s retelling of their story on Oct 17, and the full tale of the
calumny here [the world as stage]
Charles George Gordon (born
January 28 1833; died January 26 1885): one of the destroyers of Yuan
Ming Yuan on Jan 11 [China page]; and yet
still very much amongst the “Heroes” on Sept 29: Charles
George Gordon of Khartoum, or “Chinese
Gordon”, or “Gordon Pasha” - in other words, another British imperialist who
spent his life beating up people in countries where he had no business being
except maybe as a tourist, and is regarded as a hero for having done so. I have
placed him where he really belongs, which is on the GER page, but
I am also leaving him here to make sure the blog carries this message firmly
and clearly. Maybe even rename Sept 29 as “anti-heroes”
day, or “Heroes - or Anti-Heroes - Day?”
Anna Andreyevna Gorenko, pseudonymed as Anna Akhmatova , an Akhmatova being “a rare yellow Hawaiian
honeycreeper, Hemignathus munroi, having a long slender down-curved
upper bill and a short straight lower bill” according to Collins’ dictionary;
though elsewhere I read that “Akhmatova is a patronymic coming from Akhmat,
which is a Tatar name. Akhmat is a form of Ahmad. It is possible that Anna
Akhmatova's family were Keräşen Tatars. Keräşens are a subgroup of Tatars -
they are the descendants of Tatars that converted from Islam to Christianity
after Russia conquered the Tatar khanates. (The Tatar people are fairly obscure
outside of Russia, but they are actually the largest non-Russian group in
Russia. Most of them are Muslim. They tend to use different names - a lot of
feminine Tatar names end in consonants, whereas Russian girls' names almost
always end in A.) Other Keräşen Tatars include the House of Yusupov.” So now we
know: one of Victor Serge’s Acme poets
on Aug 20; painted by Modigliani on July 12 [The Poets]
Karl Heinrich Graf: goes
with Wellhausen, Bultmann and Dibelius on Oct 10 as the
founders of modern Bible Criticism (click here); he published his contribution,
“The Historical Books of the Old Testament”, in 1866; but most of it is really
just another Christian attempt to deal with the inconveniences of proper
textual study, and to uphold its own ideology against the evidence. [librarians of Babel]
Susan Graham - Sue Mingus, wife of Charlie: heading for the Ganges on Jan 5 [musical maestros]
Antonio
Maceo Grajales: joined the Cuban
independence movement in 1868 [pre-Columban
Americas]
Mary Graveney: the ashes of her
“The Princess Clementine Rose” can be found on Jan
8
Louis Malet de Graville: admiral of France
and father of Anne on Dec 14
Martha Gray: keeping the gate
firmly shut on May 16
James (Jimmy) Peter Greaves: the other greatest
ever inside forward on Dec 2
Henry
Grey, 1st Duke
of Suffolk, 3rd Marquess of Dorset, but more importantly the father of Queen Jane (Lady Jane Grey-Dudley) on July 19 [Aenglisch page]
Arthur Joseph Griffith in Aenglisch, Art Seosamh Ó Gríobhtha in Éirish: Easter Uprising on Sept 1, founded Sinn Féin on April 24 [the
Éireland page and here]
Wm. C. Grimes: a rather minor Oklahoma
politician, so not obvious why he was writing about the Wandering Jew on March 11; and indeed he wasn’t, it
was Wm C Prime (William Cowper Prime, born October 31 1825; died February 12
1905: click here), but Mark Twain parodied him as Grimes, one “Innocent Abroad”
mocking another - click here. The Wandering Jew can be found on the very next date, March 12. For Grimes, click here [serious scribes]
Albert de Groot officially, though he gets remembered, mostly as Albertus
Magnus, but also
as Albert von Bollstadt, Albertus
Teutonicus (Albert
the German), and Albert of Cologne; with his student Tomás
Aquino on July 10 [reverend writers]
Leslie Richard Groves (born August 17 1896; died July 13 1970): preparing the hard rain on April 22. An officer in the Army
Corps of Engineers, he oversaw the construction of the Pentagon, and was
the man who chose Robert Oppenheimer as the chief, as well as Los Alamos
as the site, and officially he was head of the project though “Oppie” directed the physics. So surely he
belongs on the GER page!!
Herschel Feibel Grynspan (that’s הערשל פײַבל
גרינשפּאן in Yiddish): triggering Kristallnacht on March 19 [responses to bullying]
Tommaso
dei Guardati (1410-1475), who published his collections of short
stories under the pseudonym Masuccio
Salernitano, one of which, “Mariotto and
Ganozza”, rewritten by Luigi da Porto under the changed names of
“Giuletta e Romeo”, provided Burglar Bill with a primary source for a play on Jan
30 – more here [the world as stage]
Vicente Guedes, as well as Bernardo Soares, on Nov 30, are
both, and definitely, pseudonyms for Fernando Pessoa; Richard
Zenith, Iain
Watson, Alfred
MacAdam
and Margaret
Jull Costa, on the same page, sound
disquietingly like pseudonyms, so I am assuming that they too are heteronyms of
Pessoa, and I am therefore listing them
all together here [The Poets]
Vincente
Guerrero, Mexican independence leader of mixed African
and Indian ancestry despite the name, became the second President of Mexico in 1829
and almost immediately abolished slavery in the country [pre-Columban Americas and responses
to bullying]
Solomon Guggenheim: his FLW-designed
"warehouse" can be found on Oct 21; niece Peggy is among the Indexed
Roberto di Guislano: the ashes of his
“La Saga di Gabrielle” can be found on Jan 8
Nikolai
Stepanovich Gumilev: reaching
his Acme on Aug 20 - bio here (not to be confused with the dissident Soviet
historian Lev Nikolayevich Gumilev, who does not yet have any
mention but this one on this blog: click here for more on him from his disciples; here for a more neutral view; and why am I mentioning him?
because Nikolai Stepanovich was his father, and Anna Akhmatova his mother) [The Poets]
Yaşar Gün: the
Turkish husband of whistleblower Katharine on Feb 23 [responses to bullying]
Abdulrazk
Gurmah: the second African
to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, in 2021 [Africa
and serious scribes]
Sir Thomas Gurney,
tag-teaming with Sir John Maltravers to destroy Edward
II on Sept 21
Thomas Guy (born somewhen
in 1644; died 27 December 1724) - bio here; and then decide if he belongs on
the GER list for transporting slaves, or
among the heroes for giving so much of his wealth to saving lives through
hospitals? the London hospital that bears his name can be found providing Keats with
lunch on Feb 23
Demi Gene Guynes (Demi Moore): lounge-singing
on June 24
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